Sunday, 5 September 2010

2010:365:248 Gloomy ....

The evening has closed in and the sky is heavy ... tipping down a constant heavy drizzle. Autumn is here with a vengeance and quantities of leaves are already blowing off the trees. Sheltering in the summer house I tried to capture the colour on the beech tree but at seven o'clock the light was already too poor.

Earlier in the afternoon I unpacked the turtles that were bought at the Car Boot Sale yesterday ... two soft cuddly toys, four fairly roughly carved and painted wooden examples and .... five elephants!

Four of the elephants are in the same style as the turtles and one is carved from a piece of coal!

They'll go off to a new home in the next few days .... the only elephant that I have is a small glass one from a factory in Swaziland that I bought there some years ago and I'll not part with it just yet.

The turtle in the collage top left is a garden ornament (but will never see the garden!) and came as a gift on Friday. So the collection grows and grows.

Apart from a celebration of Holy Communion this morning it feels as if very little has been accomplished today. Perhaps that is the way a Sunday should be from time to time. It is an opportunity to draw breath, to relax and, in today's case, to doze!

1 comment:

Elizabeth the Rector

I'm a Parish Priest in Belfast.
After reading geography at Queen's University, Belfast I began a teaching career in Lurgan Technical College. Then, after three years of further study in London Bible College (The London School of Theology) I began teaching Religious Studies in Kilkeel - in the school where I'd been a pupil!
In 1999 I resigned from that post and began a two year course in Dublin; both at the Church of Ireland Theological College and The Milltown Institute, in preparation for the ordained ministry.
The curacy years were in Bangor Abbey and then I moved to the country as rector of two small parish churches.
In 2008 I accepted a call to Saint Nicholas' on the Lisburn Road in Belfast.
Keep up to date with the church information at:
http://saintnicholasparishchurchbelfast.shutterfly.com/